"that the elephants have long forgotten the meaning behind the words of the song over the years; the birds, however, remember as they have been around for the same period of time as the elephants. Marabou provides a brief introduction to the story that is about to unfold, which begins with a historically significant event: the birth of Babar the elephant. In the Great Forest, Babar lives a happy childhood being cared for by his loving mother and playing with the other young elephants, including his friends Arthur and Celeste. One day while walking alone with Babar, Babar's mother is"
"Babar the Elephant Babar the Elephant (, ; ) is a fictional character who first appeared in 1931 in the French children's book ""Histoire de Babar"" by Jean de Brunhoff. The book is based on a tale that Brunhoff's wife, Cécile, had invented for their children. It tells of a young elephant Babar whose mother is killed by a hunter. Babar escapes, and in the process leaves the jungle, visits a big city, and returns to bring the benefits of civilization to his fellow elephants. Just as he returns to his community of elephants, their king dies from eating a"
"of the series are the monkey Zephir, the old elephant counsellor Cornelius (also later Pompadour who was created for the ""Babar"" TV series), Babar's cousin Arthur, and Babar's children, Pom, Flora, and Alexander. Later, a second daughter, Isabelle, was introduced. The Old Lady comes to live in the Kingdom as an honoured guest. Despite the presence of these counsellors, Babar's rule seems to be totally independent of any elected body, and completely autocratic; however, his leadership style seems to be one that works for the overall benefit of his elephant subjects—a form of benevolent dictator. Besides his Westernizing policies, Babar"
"by King Babar and named after his wife, Queen Celeste. Celesteville is described differently in several places in the series. In the original incarnation, Babar built Celesteville after he returned from France, and began westernizing his kingdom. He named his new city Celesteville, after the female elephant he had fallen in love with. The city lies in the middle of a jungle plain, surrounded by mountains, and is connected to a nearby sea or ocean, and is a port city. Early on, like the rest of Babar's Kingdom, Celesteville is primarily populated by elephants. Minorities include monkeys, lions, crocodiles, hippos"
"the following: Bill Mendelez Production: Nelvana Productions: Babar the Elephant Babar the Elephant (, ; ) is a fictional character who first appeared in 1931 in the French children's book ""Histoire de Babar"" by Jean de Brunhoff. The book is based on a tale that Brunhoff's wife, Cécile, had invented for their children. It tells of a young elephant Babar whose mother is killed by a hunter. Babar escapes, and in the process leaves the jungle, visits a big city, and returns to bring the benefits of civilization to his fellow elephants. Just as he returns to his community of"
"shows in history. Babar has been a perennial favorite for years at the White House Easter Egg Roll. Since 2001, the Babar franchise has been owned by Corus Entertainment's Nelvana in conjunction with the artist, Clifford Ross. Babar made a nameless appearance in ""The New Traveller's Almanac"" (part of ""The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen"" series). Babar and his elephants escort Mina Murray and Allan Quartermain through the African jungle. Mina considers them ""civilized and gentle"", but Allan denies that their leader is really wearing a crown. Some writers, notably Herbert R. Kohl and Vivian Paley, have argued that, although superficially"
"of the first two seasons focuses on the story of Babar as it is told by him to his children. The past Babar is a young elephant who, traumatized by a hunter slaughtering his mother, flees from his home forest to the city, where a kind Old Lady adopts him and teaches him the ways of human life. He returns to his home forest full of ideas for progress and, following the previous elephant king's death from eating poisonous mushrooms, hatches a plan to drive out the unnamed hunter and his men. For his heroism, Babar is crowned king of"
"Babar's Museum of Art Babar's Museum of Art (or Babar's Gallery) was the collaborative product of Laurent de Brunhoff (illustrations) and his wife Phyllis Rose de Brunhoff (text) for the Babar the Elephant series. The aim was to introduce different notable works of art found in museums around the world, mostly paintings, but also including sculptures. The human subjects in these artworks were re-interpreted as elephants. As the elephants in Celesteville took to motoring, the city's train station lost its original purpose. Queen Celeste decided to convert the station into an Art museum to showcase all the artworks she and"
"Cécile Sabouraud, a talented pianist, and they had two sons Laurent and Mathieu in 1925 and 1926; a third son, Thierry, was born nine years later. The Babar books began as a bedtime story that Cécile de Brunhoff invented for their children, Mathieu and Laurent, when they were four and five years old, respectively. She was trying to comfort Mathieu, who was sick. The boys liked the story of the little elephant who left the jungle for a city resembling Paris so much that they took it to their father, a painter, and asked him to illustrate it. He turned"
"book. The page numbers cited refer to the UK edition titled ""Babar's Gallery"". Babar's Museum of Art Babar's Museum of Art (or Babar's Gallery) was the collaborative product of Laurent de Brunhoff (illustrations) and his wife Phyllis Rose de Brunhoff (text) for the Babar the Elephant series. The aim was to introduce different notable works of art found in museums around the world, mostly paintings, but also including sculptures. The human subjects in these artworks were re-interpreted as elephants. As the elephants in Celesteville took to motoring, the city's train station lost its original purpose. Queen Celeste decided to convert"
"Babar: The Movie Babar: The Movie is a 1989 Canadian-French traditionally animated adventure film based on the characters of Jean de Brunhoff's eponymous children's books, and was a follow-up to the first season of the TV series. The film is produced by Canada's Nelvana Limited and France's Ellipse Programmé, and distributed by Astral Films in Canada and New Line Cinema in the United States. On the night of Elephantland's Victory Parade, Babar tells his 4 children the story of his first days as King of the elephants. On his first day as king, he is asked to choose a name"
"for the character Farânak, who stood by these strong men, may have created and inspired by the story of the relationship between the Persian lynx and the lion; she who walks in front of the lions. Faranak Farānak () is a female character in the Persian epic ""Shahnameh"". She is the wife of Abtin and the mother of Fereydun. Farânak is derived from the word Parvâneh, which means butterfly in Persian. Like many other words and names in Persian, the letter P was transformed to F in postarabic period, as the letter P does not exist in Arabic. Parvânak, meaning"
"occasionally gone to war with each other, though peace is restored before much damage or casualties are suffered. The rhino army is under the command of Rataxes (and the elephant army under the command of King Babar). The two countries have also been known to work together against common threats, such as when the area is infiltrated by poachers, and the two will help each other during times of need or crisis. In the television series, after working together to defend the region against a group of poachers (including the one who shot Babar's mother), the two countries, along with"
"span generations, Babar stands alongside Mickey Mouse as one of the most recognized children's characters in the world. There are now over 30,000 Babar publications in over 17 languages, and over 8 million books have been sold. Laurent de Brunhoff's ""Babar's Yoga for Elephants"" is a top seller in the U.S. with over 100,000 copies sold to date. The Babar series of books are recommended reading on former First Lady Laura Bush's national reading initiative list. All 78 episodes of the TV series are broadcast in 30 languages in over 150 countries, making Babar one of the largest distributed animation"
"of Babar, the Little Elephant"" on October 21, 1968, and ""Babar Comes to America"" on September 7, 1971. While the French author Laurent de Brunhoff pronounces the name Babar as ""BUH-bar"", the series in its first five seasons pronounces the name as ""BAB-bar"". In 2010, a computer-animated sequel series spin-off of ""Babar"" titled ""Babar and the Adventures of Badou"" was launched on Disney Junior. The new series takes place several years and focuses on a majority of new characters including Badou, Babar's grandson and Pom's son. Based on the books by Jean de Brunhoff and Laurent de Brunhoff, the plot"
"bull elephant as a 5-year-old in September 2001 from the Ramat Gan Safari. The zoo named its bull elephant ""Teddy,"" and one of its female elephants, ""Tamar,"" in honor of the mayor and his wife. However, attempts to mate Teddy with the female elephants did not produce a natural birth. After years of research and in response to requests by other organizations for the zoo to take part in a trial, Dr. Gabi Eshkar, chief veterinarian of the zoo, initiated the elephant artificial insemination project. Tamar was selected for the project and her reproductive cycle was closely monitored. When the"
"more often. As Babur tells it, ""Though I was not ill-disposed towards her [Aisha], yet, this being my first marriage, out of modesty and bashfulness, I used to see her once in ten, fifteen, twenty days."" Though over time Babur's bashfulness decreased as Aisha gave birth to his first child after three years of marriage, a daughter: Princess Fakhr-un-Nissa, who was born in 1501 at Samarkand but died after a month or forty days. Her death grieved Babur the most as he dearly loved his daughter. Though their relationship was much closer now, it seems that Aisha and Babur quarrelled"
"or Babalon is called the Elixir of Life. Another alternative form of this Elixir is the Elixir Rubeus consisting of the menstrual blood and semen (abbreviated as ""El. Rub."" by Crowley in his magical diaries), and is referred to as the ""effluvium of Babalon, the Scarlet Woman, which is the menstruum of the lunar current"" by Kenneth Grant. One of the most extensive descriptions by Crowley of Babalon's Daughter is to be found in ""The Vision and the Voice"", 9th Aethyr, quoted in ""The Book of Thoth"": ""This is Babalon, the true mistress of The Beast; of Her, all his"
"Tantor Tantor is a generic name for elephants in ""Mangani"", the fictional language of the great apes in the Tarzan novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs. In Burroughs's works a number of elephants appear under the name of ""Tantor"", most notably one particular bull elephant the ape man befriends in his youth in the first Tarzan novel, ""Tarzan of the Apes"". The Tantor who becomes Tarzan's companion is referred to only in passing in ""Tarzan and the Apes"" and its sequel, ""The Return of Tarzan"" (though there is one extended scene in chapter 15 of the latter in which the ape"
"calcium injection, massaged her body, and tied down her leg to speed up the birth. Two hours later, Gabi was born. The calf, weighing in at , was born at 6:10 a.m. on Saturday, 10 December 2005. Concerns that Tamar, who was raised in captivity, would not bond with her calf proved groundless. Right after the birth, veterinarians wrapped the newborn calf in towels and sawdust to warm him, and then handed him over to his mother, who nursed him. Zookeepers named the baby elephant after Dr. Gabi Eshkar, who had been killed in a traffic accident in 2004. Gabi"
"very respected Nart named Saynag-Aldar who lives in a castle on a hill, and he has a beautiful daughter named Agunda who has eyes for no-one but herself. In a nearby village lives a shepherd named Atsamaz who was given a magic pipe by a god. Though he loves Agunda, only the pipe's music shows his love. One day, Saynag-Aldar decides that he has had enough, and vows to find a husband for his daughter. He proclaims a contest to see who among the Narts is the most fit, with the gods in heaven deciding the winner. The famous bogatyr"
"desperate Rama blew up his lair, killing himself and his henchmen in the process. The Phantom has two helpers, a mountain wolf named Devil and a horse named Hero. He also has a trained falcon named Fraka. From 1962 on, The Phantom raised an orphan named ""Rex King"", who was later on revealed to be the prince of the kingdom of Baronkhan. He also has two dolphins named Solomon and Nefertiti, and numerous other animals kept on the island of Eden. In 1978, he married his sweetheart, Diana Palmer, who works at the United Nations. The Phantom and Diana have"
"Faranak Farānak () is a female character in the Persian epic ""Shahnameh"". She is the wife of Abtin and the mother of Fereydun. Farânak is derived from the word Parvâneh, which means butterfly in Persian. Like many other words and names in Persian, the letter P was transformed to F in postarabic period, as the letter P does not exist in Arabic. Parvânak, meaning the little butterfly, is another name for the Persian lynx or caracal, also called siâh-goosh , which means blackeared in Persian. Both the name siâh-goosh (blackeared) and parvânak (little butterfly) refer to the pointy long black"
"importance of women in today's world. Sara (سراة) Sara is Mansour's younger sister. She is talkative and terribly curious about the things Mansour and his friends do. Her pet parrot, Bibi, is equally as loud as her, if not more. Saqer (صقر) Saqer is Mansour's grandfather who often serves as a bridge between Mansour and his heritage. He used to be a pearl diver in the past, but now he regales those days by teaching his grandchildren about the traditions and life back then. Naser (ناصر) Naser is Mansour's older brother. He is a university student working towards his business"
"Hajj rejoices in his new-found riches (""Fate"" (reprise)). Back in the city, the Wazir of Police comes through the busy Bazaar (""Bazaar of the Caravans""). The evil Wazir and his seductive, beautiful wife-of-wives, Lalume, discuss a loan he desperately needs. In return for the money lent from the King of Ababu, the Caliph must marry one (or all three) of the Princesses of Ababu, who perform a sexy dance. Through their amah, the princesses tell Lalume that they wish to return home. Lalume convinces them that Baghdad is much more exciting than any other place on earth (""Not Since Nineveh"")."
"in Farzana Moon's historical novel ""Babur: The First Moghul in India"" (1977). Bibi Mubarika Bibi Mubaraka (), meaning ""Blessed Damozel"" was Empress consort of the Mughal Empire as a wife of Emperor Babur, the founder of the Mughal Empire and the first Mughal emperor. She is frequently mentioned in the Humayun-nama by her stepdaughter Gulbadan Begum, who calls her stepmother 'The Afghan lady' (""Afghani Aghacha""). Bibi Mubarika was the daughter of Malik Shah Mansur, the chief of the Yusufzai tribe of Pashtuns. She was the granddaughter of Malik Sulaiman Shah, and the niece of Taus Khan. One of her brothers"
"Cécile de Brunhoff Cécile de Brunhoff (née Sabouraud) (October 16, 1903 – April 7, 2003) was a French storyteller and the creator of the original Babar story. She was also a classically trained pianist. The Babar books began as a bedtime story de Brunhoff invented for her children, Mathieu and Laurent, when they were four and five years old, respectively. She was trying to comfort Mathieu, who was sick. The boys liked the story of the little elephant who left the jungle for a city resembling Paris so much that they took it to their father Jean de Brunhoff, a"
"observer-expectancy effect. Born on July 23, 1970, at Almaty Zoo, Batyr lived his entire life in the Karaganda Zoo at Karaganda in Kazakhstan. He died in 1993 having never seen nor heard another elephant. Batyr was the offspring of once-wild Indian elephants (a subspecies of the Asian elephant) and was the second child of his mother ""Palm"" (1959-1998) and father ""Dubas"" (1959-1978) had been presented to Kazakhstan's Almaty Zoo by the Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. The first baby elephant (elder Batyr's brother) was killed by his mom immediately after birth − at May 15, 1968. Batyr, whose name is"
"a man named Theerapat ""Pat"" Trungprakan's and his wife Anocha ""Dao"" with the goal of preserving the elephant population in Thailand. Theerapat says there is much sacrifice involved, and says he and the other caretakers spend more time with the elephants than with their wives The elephants' caretakers, known as mahouts, are from a nearby Karen village and are paired-up with their own elephant to take care of. Patara's conservation philosophy is ""Extinction is Forever,"" which is why their solution is elephant conservation through breeding. In order to preserve the Thai elephant population, the farm has four points of emphasis"
"on the series from 1946, beginning with ""Babar et Le Coquin d'Arthur"". An animated TV series ""Babar"" was produced in Canada by Nelvana Limited and Clifford Ross Company, originally running from 3 January 1989 to 5 June 1991, with 65 episodes. An additional 13 episodes aired in 2000. The character has also appeared in a number of films. The first two of Jean de Brunhoff's Babar books have inspired two major concert works: ""L'Histoire de Babar, le petit éléphant"" (""The Story of Babar, the Little Elephant"") by Francis Poulenc in 1940; and ""The Travels of Babar (Le Voyage de Babar)"""
"Zephir; her efforts are successful until an unsupervised Alexander stows away in a basket that drifts away in the lake, almost eaten by a crocodile and nearly drowning before he is saved by his parents. That night, Babar's troubles manifest in a nightmare in which he is threatened by a visit from the demon Misfortune, but he is awoken by Flora the next morning to discover that both Cornelius and Madame are well on their way to recovering from their respective ordeals. The elephants rejoice in the completion of their beautiful new city, for which Babar proposes a new name:"
"identity and so on via neural implants, and which travel to the planets Crucible and Orison aboard holoships, supported by members of the Akinya spacefaring family. Tantor Tantor is a generic name for elephants in ""Mangani"", the fictional language of the great apes in the Tarzan novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs. In Burroughs's works a number of elephants appear under the name of ""Tantor"", most notably one particular bull elephant the ape man befriends in his youth in the first Tarzan novel, ""Tarzan of the Apes"". The Tantor who becomes Tarzan's companion is referred to only in passing in ""Tarzan"
"evening, Madame and Babar agree that it is time for him to return home. Babar is welcomed back to the Great Forest, where he reunites with his old friend Cornelius and the rest of the elephants. Meanwhile, Lord Rataxes, the leader of the rhinoceroses, mobilizes his forces in preparation for war against the elephants. Babar devises a plan to stop the war: he paints monster faces on the backsides of elephants and has them walk backwards in their approach towards the enemy. The plan succeeds in forcing the rhinoceros troops to retreat in fear, and Babar then has Arthur apologize"